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Imagine a world with little or no concrete. Would that even be possible? After all, concrete is everywhere — on our roads, our driveways, in our homes, bridges and buildings. For the past 200 years, it’s been the very foundation of much of our planet.<p>But the production of cement, which when mixed …

This Sundance award-winning film is a fearless exposé of the terrifying Mexican drug war and the cartels that operate in and around the Mexico/US border. With astonishing access, it follows two vigilante leaders fighting the power of Mexico's drug gangs on both sides of the border.<p>Tim 'Nailer' …

Houses not built to high standards of insulation will have to be expensively retrofitted or risk breaching national carbon targets, climate watchdog warns<p>Housing built in the UK today and in the next few years may have to be expensively retrofitted with energy-saving technology within the next two …

The government’s claim to be leading a solar revolution is a bad joke when it is instead pursuing ideological warfare against ‘green crap’<p>The government wasted no time after the election in killing the country’s onshore wind power sector and is now taking its wrecking ball to the solar industry, …

Anote Tong, whose island nation is threatened by rising seas caused by climate change, says Australia has moral obligation to worry about at-risk countries<p>The president of Kiribati has criticised Australia’s commitment to new coalmines on economic grounds as a “very selfish perspective” that …

Google launched a tool on Monday called Project Sunroof which aims to help homeowners decide whether or not their roof is a good fit for installing solar panels.<p>Here's how it works: First, you enter your address into the Project Sunroof website. Google looks up your address in Google Maps and uses …

Today, August 13, is Earth Overshoot Day, meaning that in less than eight months this year, humanity has already used up the resources Mother Nature can provide for the whole of 2015.<p>In other words, we are in ecological debt.<p>The calculation comes from Global Footprint Network, an environmental …

Smog is downright nasty. In some cities, it’s an occasional nuisance. In others—ahem, Beijing—it’s a severe public health hazard. Many a designer has grappled with ways to abate air pollution—like the smog-eating concrete architect Richard Meier specified for a lab in Italy—and now Daan Roosegaarde …

I ran to the roadside and watched as a vast convoy of liberal left refugees, aided by noble Scots, fled north to a tartan utopia<p>Are we naturally selfish? Or do we have an innate sense of empathy for our fellow living things? The radio journalist Herbert Morrison watched the Hindenberg come down and …

<b>Don’t disguise your leaflet as a newspaper</b><p>Believe it or not - a Liberal Democrat leaflet<p>Sent via Guardian Witness<p>By ID651971<p>30 March 2015, 11:37<p>Look what we’ve got here, a free copy of the local newsp… oh. Wait a second. It’s a leaflet. Stop trying to trick us!<p>The newspaper-leaflet has become a …

Those "do not eat" desiccate packets of silica gel that keep shoe boxes dry could soon help keep data centers cool. IBM has launched the THRIVE project with aims to do just that by creating a heat pump that runs on waste heat.<p>Normally heat pumps work by absorbing ambient heat which vaporizes …

Moving playlists from Spotify to Apple Music isn’t as straightforward as it should be. Apple doesn’t offer an importer, so you’ll have to use a workaround. There are a couple of fiddly methods – one involving two apps and one that requires you to get down and dirty with JSON. Then there’s the far …

The study — written by James Hansen, NASA's former lead climate scientist, and 16 coauthors, many of whom are considered among the top in their fields — concludes that glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica will melt 10 times as fast as previous consensus estimates, resulting in a sea-level rise of …

<i>By Cat DiStasio</i><p>Technology progresses at a breakneck pace -- but why is our built environment so far behind? Fortunately, some smart folks have devoted their lives to developing futuristic technologies that can reduce the carbon footprint of buildings, make them more energy-efficient and lower …